Roxina ( Movie )

Today I watched a movie with my friend named another woman's husband. The movie is about a man who is married, but he is interested in another woman. Even though, her wife really loved him, and she tried her best to make her husband happy, the husband was cheating on her with another woman. The guy was a lier and he didn't tell his girl friend that he is still married, he just told her that he is divorced. One night the guy asked his girl friend to go on a trip with him to Bahama. What he said about the trip made his girl friend happy, but she had a problem with water. In other words, she wanted to go to the tirp, but she was afraid of water, and swimming in the ocean. As a result, she went to a community center to learn swimming. Accidently, her teacher was her boy friend's wife, but neither of them know about this relationship. After couple of months, they became very close friends, but one day one of the students of the woman who was a swimming teacher died. The day after, the woman who was taking swimming courses went to the funeral to meet her friend. All of a sudden she saw his boy friend with her swimming teacher, and she found out that they guy was cheating on her wife with her. At the end, she broke up with her bory friend, and after a while the guy's wife found out about the relationship between her friend and his husband, so she got divorce from his husband. The End

who know how to report incometax?

Hi ever body,
As you know, on Monday, I went with Xingxing to find the solution for her in almost every place in York University. Unfortunately we spent almost one hour and a half to find the answers, but we could not find the answers. Moreover, we felt disappointed with the service in free tax clinic. I wondered why they did not have a service for international students because York University has many international students study in here. I think even though we have lived in Toronto for long time, we still don't know how to report income tax or contact with the government. If you have friends who know how to report income tax, please tell Xing-xing.

Reporting Income Tax in Canada

A couple months ago, I received a T5 slip from TD Bank. They told me that I need to report income tax because I get interest from the bank. At that time, I had no idea what income tax is, so I totally forgot the letter. My grandparents remind me of reporting income tax this Monday; however, I still didn’t know what income tax is. Pui and I went YUELI office to ask about my case. They suggested me to go to York International in Vanier College. We went there, but they told me that it would be better to go to York Student Service. Unfortunately, when I described my case to a staff in Student Service, he told me that they even didn’t know how to deal with. He told me it would be better to find a lawyer or this kind of service.
I think the process of reporting income tax is complicated, and we are international students. We came here for a short time, and we don’t know the law and rules in Canada. However, only few people and communities can help us. We pay everything as every citizen, and we also pay more than them. However, we cannot get enough help. I think it’s unfair for us.

Sushi ! ! !

Hi everyone! As you know, Japanese food is famous about sushi. I found a video that show how to eat sushi (link here). I hope you are interesting :).

After you watched the video, I guessed you are surprise because of the way they eat sushi. Some of you think that it's really complicated and inconvenient to eat like that, and some said: " Wow! Japanese is polite ." In my opinion, I think that Japanese culture is fascinating. The way they enter the restaurant, ask for the seats, order food and how they eat show their respect in society. Moreover, the way they savor sushi show their high requirement of eating. Unlike my country, Vietnamese usually eat very much until they full. Therefore, in your opinion, eating to live or living to eat. Which one do you refer? :)

Nazareth

Nazareth was a small and insignificant village during the period of Jesus. The valley and its history were well known to the Jews of Nazareth in the time of Jesus. During the first 30 years of his life spent in Nazareth. Nazareth is the largest Arab city in Israel, with a population of 70,000, once split nearly evenly between Christians and Muslims, but now nearly two-thirds Muslim. A Byzantine church was built over the place where it is believed that the angel Gabriel announced the birth of Jesus to the virgin Mary. In 1966 the Roman Catholic Church began constructing a new basilica over these remains and today this church is the largest church building in the Middle East. The Muslims also have built Mosque, was built in 1963. The el-Abyad Mosque, to the north of the Basilica, was built in 1812.

Arena, Nicole, Roxina and Elson

Firstly, I should explain that why I did not go to school today. The reason is I got cold last night, because I didn't close my window. Moreover, it was snowy last night. Anyway, feel sorry for absent today.

Arena is my sister, but she is not really my sister since we have not blood related. I know her since my first time in yueli. By that time, I was scared by Yueli because I never use English so much before, and I do not have idea about what to say. Occasionally, Arena was sitting beside me in my first Yueli class. At first, I did not say anything to her, because she looks like a shy girl as well. However, when the first group work began, she became so talk. It seems like she will never stop talking. As time went on, I knew more and more about her, and we always hang out after school. Now, I feel like there is no gap between she and me. We talk about everything, mainly something about realationship with guys and girls in Yueli. For me, Arena is just a kid since she do not know as much about this world as me. So, sometimes I always try to be her adviser.

Nicole is a korean girl. I know her through Arena because Arena is one of the best friends of Nicole. I first met nicole in my first seminar class. At first, I thought nicole is a silent girl but after hanging out with her several time, I found she is so cute but with a little emotional. If some bad things happen to her, she will not spread her emotion out. Insdead, she always hide his sadness. after hanging out serval times with her, I became one of his best friends. When she feel upset, she always call me or talk to me in msn to vomit all her feeling to me. However, I do not feel unconfortable when she vomit her feeling to me, Instead, I feel glad to share his upset because I have already written down of her name in my list of best friends

Roxina.... I do not have any comments, hahahahahah. She is so so so cute. she is humous. When we talk about something in class or between friends, she will suddenlly say some words, especially some stange idea which do not related to our topic, but the words from her mouth are always funny. Sometimes, she will make us laugh to death. However, she is changeble, she is changing her mind in every single second. I feel i m a bad guy because i always joking at her about her appearance. However, the most important thing for her is appearance. As a result, she always mad at me when i joking about her appearance. Anyways, that is not offence. And she knows.

These three guys above are my good friends in yueli...

Long weekend

Hello everybody...I hope taht u all enjoyed your long weekend..Unfortunatly i didn't i had to work all the time but i had some fun i watched 2 movies one was freaky friday it's a comedy movie i was laughing the whole time i would recomend you to watch it...The other movie is arabic it's a comedy as well and i had so much fun watching it...Well i'm kind of furstrated by the weather i hope it will be better the next couple of days...I have nothing more to talk about that's pretty much everything...

Thank you and have a good night....

Last week, I went back to Taiwan to attend my grandfather’s funeral. In general, this” trip” is good and tight, although some parts were pretty sorrowful. Recently, every time when I think of my grandfather, I still do not want to admit that he has left us already. He was a kind person, he loved grandchildren dearly and care for this family. Yesterday, my friend told me that she dreamed my grandfather. She said that, in the dream, I cried sorrowfully, and my grandfather told to her that he left smoothly without any pain; therefore, he asked me do not cry anymore. When my friend told me about this dream, I was surprised and comforted. Now I fell much better.

Hi all,
…. but maybe it is better to say, “Happy Easter!” :) Yes, you can say that Easter has been left behind; nevertheless, the spirit of this holyday is still staying all around the city of Toronto. Although weather is far away from desirable and peculiar to spring season, this fact did not prevent the beautiful celebration of Ester and, finally, beginning of spring! However, such cold and snowy weather had chance to make its corrections by pushing away Toronto’s Easter Parade. This great event Toronto has enjoyed for over 40years. Fortunately, as during long time as well this year Ester Parade ran along Queen Street West on Sunday, March 23rd. I can say that it was all good fun! Almost two hours people were enjoying Ester celebration. All possible kinds of participants showed something special for people who walked around. Of course, any Easter is not fully enjoyed without Easter Bunny; therefore, almost everyone tried to wear “bunny’s ears”. It was funny to look on every single person (from child to adult) with such “ears”, but no doubt they all were really happy! Around 2000 participants and thousands more lined the street even though there was only one sidewalk. It was wonderful holiday despite of frigid but sunny weather. :)

Should we use robot in our lives?

Hello! Everyone! I went to a student-led discussion. The topic was should we use robot in our lives. At the begining of the discussion, I agreed that we should use robot in our lives. Just like my friend said during the discussion robot could do some simple and repeatable work for human, so it saved a lot of time and human resource. Also, the robot could do some dangerous work such as high-altitude operation, mining and diving。If they can deal with the problem that is dangerous to human, why don't we use them? In my opinion, using robot is a good idea for human. However, I also agreed with some students that people can not depend on the robot. Once people rely on the robot too much, human may not control the robot especially when the robot has intelligence. It will be a big challenge for human. When the discussion almost finished, a student's words changed my mind. She said people should consider to use the robot carefully. Because if some people intended to use the robot to commit crime such as murder, it would be difficult for human to find the clue of the real criminal. Even if we found the criminal, they still had the excuse for which they could say there was a system error. This makes me rethink the topic question. While someting benefits us, it may bring some risks.

The Second Learning Center

Being a high educated people is one of the most significant achievements of people in many perspectives. Due to a high competitive of recent job market, a majority of student turn well-study to a high responsible for their future careers. Numbers of available facilities on campuses are filled up daily to a limited numbers of students; thus, others minority have no options but to wait. Waiting, is it the only solution? I guess not :(

Toronto Public Libraries would be another valuable facilities available for all types of people with no requirement. Toronto Reference Library is the biggest of all public library with six stories, located downtown (Young & Bloor). Tens of thousands of varieties of books in all subjects including ESLs are always ready for students to read. Beside the books, the library also offers all kinds of study material for nonnative English speakers. Sounds great!!!

What is more, free high-speed Internet access and private group-study rooms are also available in the library at the main floor. A quiet environment surrounded by all working hard students strongly comfort and persuade me to work hard as well.

Is the library just about study? I also disagree :(

The library is also a great place to meet new friends from all over the world. Chat to exchange and experience new cultures would also benefit our general knowledge as well as release stress.

I strongly recommend everybody go to the public libraries close to where you live.

Good Luck

Keep up the good work!

Hi all,

This is just another reminder that your blog posts are due Wednesdays. To be more specific, they are due by 10pm since that is the time I will log on each week to check and perhaps comment. If I don't see your post at that time, this will affect your effort mark. You may post at any time throughout the week, but the last possible moment is Wednesdays at 10pm. It is advisable not to wait until the last possible moment.

Also, good work on varying your topics last week. You gave me lots of interesting things to read! I am pleased that you are using your outside activities to write about.

Keep up the good work, and enjoy!
Corinna